Lady Be Good – Day 1, April 5, 1943

Lady Be Good – Day 1, April 5, 1943
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With the aircraft almost out of fuel and just flying on one engine, the crew of the Lady Be Good baled out into the night sky.

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Daily Photo – Out of Nowhere

Daily Photo – Out of Nowhere
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A surveyor's Land Rover emerges seemingly out of nowhere during our sand storm camp move in the Calanscio Sand Sea.

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Daily Photo – Ouch!

Daily Photo – Ouch!
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Of course,we couldn't leave our wrecked Land Rover in the dunes, we had to recover it. Some joker had written 'Ouch!!' on the door after the flight and before the recovery.

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Daily Photo – Not Quite As Far As The Wright Flyer

Daily Photo – Not Quite As Far As The Wright Flyer
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After this hard landing, today's photo shows this flight was not quite as far as the Wright Flyer. And I wouldn't say the flight could be defined as 'controlled' either

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Daily Photo – A Hard Landing

Daily Photo – A Hard Landing
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Now jumping back to the Calanscio Sand Sea in eastern Libya in 1991 for a photo of a hard landing.

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